The points made are powerful, and are a good summing-up of the disturbing features and consequences of the government's arbitrary and illegal actions. posted by Dr. Dawg at 12: 07 PM ❋ Unknown (2009)
This gracefully written summing-up celebrates the triumph of democracy over an Orwellian totalitarianism that had been touted as the wave of the future. ❋ Alonzo L. Hamby (2011)
We may never know whether money has actually changed hands but the retrial ended abruptly yesterday, when the judge – reportedly without bothering to hear a summing-up from defence lawyers – sentenced Moustafa to 15 years, and the hitman to life. ❋ Brian Whitaker (2010)
Few writers can resist the lure of closure — some form of summing-up or leave-taking. ❋ Unknown (2010)
As in his summing-up of Michael Winner, directing him in The Wicked Lady, as 'a mad nut … a restless maniac mixture of George Cukor, Harpo Marx and Lionel Bart'. ❋ Unknown (2011)
In what promises to be a surreal summing-up of his years in office, Berlusconi's trial for paying a Moroccan dancer, Karima "Ruby" El Mahroug, for sex when she was under 18 resumes on Wednesday, followed by three more hearings in December that promise a parade of showgirls who will give evidence about the bunga-bunga parties at Berlusconi's Milan mansion. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Make Blogathon summing-up post, finish tidying (although Adam and Mark did a great job there), pack the BPAL that I never got around to packing last week because of arrghdrama, photograph BPAL for eBay, hopefully get eBay auctions up. ❋ Fjm (2009)
Even if Brahms intended his last symphony as a conscious summing-up of his symphonic thinking, it's hardly a wistful farewell. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)
In his summing-up, he instructed the jury that "you may well think that hell on earth would not be an understatement of what the Gazans suffered in that time." ❋ Unknown (2010)
It's Columbus Day here in the United States, which nominally honors Christopher Columbus for his "discovery" of America, to which I append scare quotes not only because there were, in fact, people already living here, but because that summing-up of Columbus's career, I think, has obscured the actual, wildly crazy history of his voyages, which is worth perusing. ❋ Matthew Guerrieri (2008)
As for Cicero, he was being kept in reserve for the final day of the trial, when he was due to make the summing-up to the jury. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)
The early editions were carrying his summing-up at length, and I studied it eagerly in the corner of a Fleet Street pub, with a pie and pint to keep me company. ❋ Unknown (2010)
In the course of his summing-up he made a bitter attack on Cicero, accusing him of being a tyrant, of setting himself up as judge and jury, of having been the third foreign-born king of Rome, after Tarquin and Numa. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)
At the seventh hour, Cato finished his summing-up of the prosecution case, and the judge, whose name was Cosconius, asked Cicero if he would like to conclude for the defense. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)
An excellent interview, Tim, and a good, fair summing-up of the MNW experience. ❋ Tim Stretton (2010)
For that matter, a summing-up of all the trial verdicts would have helped the reader assess Jackson's performance. ❋ Dennis Drabelle (2010)
